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Shelf image features covers for four recently published Littman titles: 'Emotion in the Jewish Mystical Tradition', 'The Rhetoric of the Jewish Liturgy'. 'Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 38', 'Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New'. The covers sit against a floral background, and the Littman Library logo features in the top left-hand corner of the image.

To celebrate #JewishBookWeek this year, we're offering up to 30% off all titles from the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. Use the code 27LITTMAN30 at checkout on our website before 19th March to receive your discount.

Find out more: bit.ly/Littman-JBW 📖

Promotional graphic for the book "Lavender Sounds: From Lesbian Radio to Queer Feminist Soundwork" by Stacey Copeland. On the right is the book cover in purple and white, featuring an illustrated radio with flowing, abstract lines. On the left, a matching purple background includes a quote: “brings a nuanced, multifaceted account of queer feminist practice into radio and sound studies” attributed to Kate Lacey. The University of Michigan Press logo appears at the bottom.

📻️🌈 In the brilliant "Lavender Sounds", Copeland traces the journey from lesbian radio to #queer feminist podcasting, revealing how sound becomes a powerful, embodied medium for activism, storytelling, and community across generations. @scopeland.bsky.social
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Murder, Modern Literature, and the Great Ocean Liner - SNR From the gilded salons of Edwardian fiction to the psychological depths of modernist prose, ocean liners have long served as floating stages for human drama, capturing the hopes, tensions, and…

🌊 LUP author Faye Hammill recently appeared on the Mariner's Mirror Podcast from the Society of Nautical Research, to discuss their upcoming book Ocean Liners and Modern Literature!

Listen here 🎧️
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Promotional graphic for the book "Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency" by Stephen Lee Naish. On the left is the book cover featuring abstract, glitchy vertical streaks in blue, white, and orange tones with the title arranged vertically. The background is a distorted, static-like image in similar colors. On the right, a quote reads, “a kaleidoscopic blending of cinema, politics, and pop-culture” attributed to Iain Reid. Lever Press logo appears in the bottom right corner.

🎞️ Out this month: "Screen Captures"
Stephen Lee Naish interrogates how contemporary cinema mediates crises from climate to platform capitalism, asking what our viewing habits reveal about power, attention, and cultural life today.
Find out more: bit.ly/409WszW
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Hostel, House and Chambers: Accommodating the working woman in Victorian and Edwardian London (Online) - Lamas A vast wave of Edwardian women working in cities created an urgent need for an affordable, respectable new business-minded enterprise: the single woman’s

Emily's lecture will also be available to watch online - register for the online event here: www.lamas.org.uk/product/host...

Lectures - Lamas Many lectures will be hybrid, taking place in-person and as Zoom webinars. Please check the lecture details for the in-person location.

EVENT: Join Emily Gee, author of Hostel, House and Chambers: Accommodating the Victorian and Edwardian Woman, at a lecture with the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society on Tuesday 10th March, 6:30-7:30pm at The Alan Baxter Gallery, London. www.lamas.org.uk/product/host...

Promotional graphic which displays a medieval illustration as the background. In the top centre, white text which reads, 'MEDIEVAL STUDIES DIGITAL COLLECTIONS' sits on top of a transparent brown text box, and the LUP bird logo is in the top right corner, also in white. Underneath, there is another transparent text box which contains white text which reads, 'Exeter Medieval Online', 'Translated Texts for Historians E-Library', and 'Littman E-Library'.

Is your library looking to expand its medieval studies digital holdings? LUP offers a wide range of medieval studies monographs across multiple ebook collections, all available with perpetual access. Browse the collections in our catalogue ➡️ bit.ly/collections-...

French Studies is now part of LUP Open Languages, a new Subscribe to Open initiative that aims to make the latest content Open Access for readers everywhere.

Subscribers also enjoy exclusive archival access dating back to 1947.

Find out how to support Open Access for 2026 👉️ bit.ly/LUP-Open-Lang

Promotional banner for French Studies: A Quarterly Review. On the left, blue text reads: “Publishing articles and reviews spanning all areas of the subject, including language and linguistics, literature, thought and the history of ideas, and cultural studies.” The background features a subtle abstract pattern in pale lavender tones. Along the bottom are the Liverpool University Press logo (Founded 1899) and the Society for French Studies (SFS) logo. On the right is the cover of French Studies.

Most read in French Studies this week:
Hauntology, Spectres and Phantoms by Colin Davis.

Read it in the French Studies online archive: bit.ly/FS-Hauntology
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Building for the Atomic Age | Home An industrial archaeology of the United Kingdom’s nuclear industry

Studies by our members: ‘Building for the Atomic Age: An industrial #archaeology of the United Kingdom’s nuclear industry’ by Wayne Cocroft. This new book @livunipress.bsky.social by Historic England presents a heavily illustrated overview of the UK’s nuclear industry 1/3

Collage of Liverpool scenes at dusk and night, including the Royal Albert Dock reflected on calm water, Liverpool Cathedral, the Royal Liver Building clock tower, cobbled streets, and illuminated city architecture. A red music player graphic overlays the centre reading “Life in Liverpool – Liverpool University Press,” a themed Spotify playlist.

To celebrate the brilliant events happening in Liverpool this month, including University Press Redux 2026, the LUP team have put together a playlist of songs that remind them of the city.

Find the playlist and more about University Press Redux 2026 below:

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Promotional graphic for K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today by Areum Jeong. The book cover appears on the left, showing a green-lit K-pop concert scene with a large crowd and stage lights; the title is in bold neon-green text. On the right, a pull quote reads, “Smart and immersive, this is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the passions and practices of K-Pop fandom.” — Matt Hills. The University of Michigan Press logo appears at the bottom.

Just published!
"K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today"
More than mere obsession: Areum Jeong studies #K-pop fandom, showing how “#deokhu” fan labour drives its global reach, politics, and cultural impact.
Discover now: bit.ly/46Ty35e
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Read a new blog piece from @livuniheseltine.bsky.social on missed opportunities for social housing in Northern Ireland, including on the former Girdwood Barracks site, here ⬇️
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Reconfiguring citizenship in times of crisis: (post)pandemic experiences from the urban South — IDPR special issue This double special issue of International Development Planning Review examines how the COVID-19 pandemic reconfigured state–citizen relations and reshaped patterns of urban citizenship across citi…

New special issue of International Development Planning Review explores how COVID-19 reconfigured state–citizen relations across cities in the urban South.

Read our Q&A with guest editors Ilda Lindell & Tiina Kontinen ⬇️
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Photograph of Marden longtailed oblique arrowheads. [Photograph: © Historic England]

A reconstruction of the area which depicts Neolithic cattle herding: a herder is at the back with a herd in front, child and dog to the left, and a large tree at the far left. [Reconstruction by Peter Lorimer © Historic England Archive]

Photograph of early Neolithic pottery from Windmill Hill causewayed enclosure, Avebury, now in Devizes Museum. One large pot is at the back with three smaller in front. [© Historic England Archive]

Illustration of a modified antler being used as a pick to the right and the construction of the chalk bank and ditch, using tools made from deer antlers to the left. [Illustration by Judith Dobie, Historic England]

With chapters authored by key specialists in their field, this book shows how people lived, what materials they used, their animals, their clothes, and their environment. This book is illustrated with over 150 colour images. Find out more: bit.ly/HEStonehenge...
#AncientSky #Stonehenge

Promotional image for The Stonehenge World. The image includes the cover of the book which features an aerial photograph of Stonehenge within its surrounding circular earthworks and green landscape. To the left is text reading 'Provides a complete picture of the lifestyles, culture, and landscape around Britain's greatest monument.' with the Historic England and Liverpool University Press logos in the bottom left.

The Stonehenge World: Living, landscape, food and design at the time of our greatest monument edited by Matthew Canti is now available. Published with #HistoricEngland, this is the first book to summarise all aspects of lifestyle and environment around #Stonehenge. bit.ly/HEStonehenge...

The promotional image features the book Science Fiction and the Modern World: The Emergence of a Genre in a Revolutionary Age with a brightly lit nineteenth-century exhibition hall on the cover. To the right, text describes the book’s argument about science fiction’s role in redefining humanity’s relationship to nature, with the Liverpool University Press logo.

Recently published in Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | Science Fiction and the Modern World explores nineteenth-century science fiction as recalibrating humanity’s understanding of its relationship to the natural order.

Find out more here:
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🌟 "Professor Superstar: Fandom and Anti-Fandom of Academia🌟

Mel Stanfill explores how academia acts like a fan culture, with admiration, critique, and microcelebrity shaping how higher education is seen...
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Discover here: bit.ly/4qzdLVw

To find out more about this new book and the history of the UK's nuclear industry, read the author's new post on the LUP blog which shares a small selection of the 240 colour illustrations included in this book: liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2026/02/27/b...
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Promotional image for Building for the Atomic Age. The background image is a black and white aerial image of Capenhurst, Cheshire [courtesy of the Historic England Archive]. To the left is text reading 'Presents a heavily illustrated exploration of the UK's nuclear industry.' with the cover image of the book - which features an aerial view of a coastal nuclear power station complex set amid green fields, woodland, and a long shoreline - to the right. In the bottom left are the Historic England and LUP logos.

New from our Historic England list: Building for the Atomic Age, an industrial archaeology of the United Kingdom’s nuclear industry by Wayne D. Cocroft. This new book provides readers with an authoritative account of the physical legacy of the UK’s nuclear industry. bit.ly/HEAtomic #Heritage

Drawing on multisite ethnography, in "Kurdish Women’s Transnational Resistance" Göksel traces how #Kurdish women have built a transnational movement that reshapes politics, gender, and resistance across war, displacement, and authoritarian rule.
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Promotional graphic with a dark red background. On the right, large white text reads “JTEP” above “Journal of Transport Economics and Policy.” On the left, white text reads “Volume 60 Part 1” with “Available online now” underneath and a thin underline. In the bottom left corner is the Liverpool University Press logo and the text “Liverpool University Press – Founded 1899.”

📖 Most read in the latest issue of the Journal of Transport Economics and Policy

Spatial Competition and Pass-through of Fuel Taxes: Evidence from a Quasi-natural Experiment in Germany, by Frederik von Waldow and Heike Link.

Read it online at: bit.ly/JTEP-Fuel-Taxes
#TransportPolicy #PublicPolicy

Promotional graphic for The Subtlety of the Street: The Discourse of Responsibility by M Peregrine Balmat. The background is teal. On the left is the book cover, also teal, featuring two tin cans connected by a yellow string, with the title in large white and yellow text. On the right is a blurb quote that reads: “Grounded in discourse analysis, Balmat shows how dialogue with recipients of service at the street level indisputably shapes the public service experience. Readers will appreciate this closely-observed study with its mix of disciplinary detail and compassionate, thoughtful social commentary.” —Michael Lipsky. The University of Michigan Press logo appears at the bottom right.

In "The Subtlety of the Street", M Peregrine Balmat shows how everyday phrases in street-level work quietly construct racialised “Gestalts of Responsibility,” tracing their policy roots and pointing toward more just practice.
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Promotional image for the book Power, Politics and Territory in the 'New Northern Ireland' by Elizabeth DeYoung. The book cover is placed on the left side of the image. White text on the red background next to it on the right reads: ''This is the author's first book. But she writes like a dream and with a courage and toughness which belie her years.' Marianne Elliott, The Irish Times'. Below, in smaller text: 'Winner of the ACIS Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book, 2023'. In the top right corner is the LUP logo, and in the bottom right corner, white text reads 'New in Paperback'.

New in paperback | Winner of the 2023 ACIS Donald Murphy Prize, Power, Politics and Territory in the 'New Northern Ireland' by Elizabeth DeYoung explores how North Belfast’s biggest investment in the peace process failed to deliver.

Available now in paperback ⬇️
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👨‍🎨 In a beautiful new book, "Beyond Mysticism", discover how #Puget Sound’s unique landscape, culture, and mysticism shaped Northwest #Modernist art, from Tobey and Graves to a vibrant community of visionary local artists.
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Out today!: bit.ly/4kydwc8
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Most read | Archives
‘Caring for Parliament’s archive collections’ by Katerina Laina is part of a new special issue guest edited by @satisfactory20.bsky.social & David Prior.
➡️Browse: bit.ly/ARCH-KL
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Promotional graphic for “Trigger Warnings”. The book cover can be found to the left of the graphic, which has white text and contains a surrealist and absurdist art piece depicting a scene of chaos with three people with abstract shaped bodies. To the right of the cover image, a review quote by Shereen Inayatulla in white text above a pink background reads, “This collection enlivens critical pedagogies by treating the subject of trigger warnings with the care and nuanced consideration urgently needed.” The Lever Press logo in white appears next to the quote. Above the quotation there is an enlarged section of the artwork found on the cover.

“Trigger Warnings” from Lever Press is an interdisciplinary collection which aims to deepen our understanding of trigger warnings in a social justice context. Read more about the book here: bit.ly/4qXJtNf @leverpress.bsky.social

Promotional banner for a Sculpture Journal panel at the College Art Association Annual Conference 2026. Text reads “Sculpture and the Non-Normative Body,” Friday, February 20, 2026, 11:00 AM–12:30 PM. Sculpture Journal logo at top left, CAA logo at top right, and Liverpool University Press logo at bottom right, over a monochrome abstract sculptural background.

Today at CAA 2026: Sculpture Journal editors Erin C. Giffin (Hamilton College) and Teresa Kittler (University of York) present “Sculpture and the Non-Normative Body.”
🕚 11:00–12:30
📍 Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor, Private Dining Room 2 (Hybrid)
#CAA2026 #CAA #ArtHistory

Promotional graphic for the book "Lunch at the Shop: The Art and Practice of the Midday Meal" by Peter Miller, showing the red book cover on the right and a Vogue quote on the left praising the book, with the University of Washington Press logo at the bottom.

🍴 Hungry?
"Lunch at the Shop" shows how to turn everyday work lunches into thoughtful, fresh, and shared meals, with over fifty recipes and practical tips for simple, satisfying cooking.
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